Quote the error exactly • Name every certificate • The marksheet goes in the file

Public Notice for a Name Wrongly Written on a JAC Certificate

This page is about the notice itself: how it is worded, what goes in the file, and what the published notice gets you afterwards. It is not the page that decides whether you need one. That decision belongs to the school admission register, and it is on the JAC register page. Come here once you know the register carries the same wrong spelling, so the board has nothing correct to copy from. Two rules make or break this notice. You have to quote the wrong spelling exactly as the certificate prints it, and you have to name each certificate separately, because a notice that says "my documents" does not tell an office which paper it is talking about.

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1Notice can cover several certificates, if each is named

2Witnesses on the proforma, in duplicate

IVPart of the Gazette of India that carries it

0Gazette counters anywhere in Jharkhand

Reviewed by the Jharkhandnamechange.com documentation desk • Updated 18 September 2026

Quick answer

A public notice is the route when the Jharkhand Academic Council cannot correct your certificate, because the school admission register it works from carries the same wrong spelling. The notice belongs to the Department of Publication's public notice category, not to change of name, and its proforma opens with the words that a name has been wrongly written as. That single phrase is why it fits your case: nothing about your name changed, a record was written wrongly. The file goes to the Department of Publication at Civil Lines, Delhi 110054, because no district in Jharkhand has a gazette counter, and publishes in Part IV of the Gazette of India. The papers are the proforma in duplicate signed by you in your own name and by two witnesses, an undertaking, the original newspaper carrying the matter with the details of the case, a soft copy in MS Word prepared without the witness portion, two self-attested photographs with identity proof, the certificate that the hard and soft copies are the same, a request letter with the fee paid through BharatKosh, and an attested photocopy of the certificate that carries the error. That last one is the paper people forget, and it is the heart of the file, because a correction has to show that the error exists. Wording matters more than anything else here. Quote the wrong spelling letter for letter, give the correct spelling, and name each certificate you want covered: the Class 10 marksheet, the Class 10 certificate, the Class 12 marksheet, the migration certificate, whichever apply. Be clear about what the notice then does. It settles which spelling is correct so no office can argue with you. It does not by itself make the board print a fresh marksheet, and any page promising that is selling you something the board never agreed to.

Check this first

When a JAC Certificate Name Error Needs a Public Notice

Public notice in the Gazette of India for a name wrongly written on a JAC certificate in Jharkhand — Quote the error exactly as the certificate prints it, and name every certificate you want covered.

Do not spend a rupee on a notice until you have asked one question at the school: what name does the admission register carry? Everything turns on that answer, because the board prints from the register and corrects against it.

Which route a JAC certificate name error needs, depending on the school admission register
What the admission register carries	The route	Where to read it
The correct spelling, and the certificate is wrong	A board correction through the school. No gazette at all. This is cheaper and faster, and it is the route most families should be on	The JAC certificate correction page
The same wrong spelling as the certificate	A public notice, because the board has nothing correct to copy. This page.	The decision is set out on the JAC register page
The correct spelling, but the school will not forward the correction	Escalation before any gazette. The DEO handles secondary, so Class 10 and Class 12 complaints go to him	The school refuses page
The school has closed and no register can be traced	A public notice, with the district education office asked in writing first so you have the refusal on paper	The old certificates page
Your name genuinely changed after schooling	Not this category at all. That is a change of name, and the certificate keeps the old name with a linking letter	The correction against change page

Ask for the admission form too, not just the register. Many schools in Jharkhand still hold the original admission form your parents filled in. If that form carries the correct spelling in your father's handwriting, the register entry is the clerk's mistake, and that is a correction case with strong evidence rather than a notice case. Ask for a certified photocopy of both the form and the relevant register page.

One honest warning before you read further. A gazette notice is not a shortcut around a school that is being slow. If the register is right, the board can correct the certificate, and a notice costing over a thousand rupees will not make that happen faster. We turn away this file when the register is right, and tell the family to push the school instead.

The wording

Public Notice Wording for a JAC Certificate Name Error, Line by Line

The Department's public notice proforma opens with a fixed sentence. Here it is in its own words, with the blanks the way the form carries them.

The proforma opening: "It is for general information that I ______ Son / Daughter / Wife of Shri / Smt ______ residing at ______ declare that name of mine / my father / my mother / my minor son / my minor daughter / my wife / my husband has been wrongly written as ______."

Now read each part against your own case, because each blank has a rule attached to it that files get returned for.

The Applicant's Name and Relationship

You fill your own correct name here, the one you want every record to carry at the end. Then the relationship line tells the reader whose name the error is about. This is what makes one notice able to cover a father's name on your marksheet as well as your own, and it is why the father's name cases sit in this category too.

The Address

The full residential address with the pin code, and it has to match the address on the identity proof you attach and on the undertaking. A Ranchi address on the proforma and a Dhanbad address on the Aadhaar is a mismatch a counter will pick up.

The Wrong Spelling, Quoted Exactly

This is the rule people get wrong. You are not describing the error, you are reproducing it. Copy it from the certificate letter for letter, including a missing letter, a doubled letter, a joined word or a dropped surname.

How to quote a wrongly written name exactly as the certificate prints it
What the certificate prints	What to write in the notice	What not to write
RAJIB KUMAR MEHTA, correct is RAJIV KUMAR MAHATO	Wrongly written as RAJIB KUMAR MEHTA, correct name RAJIV KUMAR MAHATO	"Spelling mistake in my name" with no versions given
SUNITA KUMARI with no surname, correct is SUNITA DEVI	Wrongly written as SUNITA KUMARI, correct name SUNITA DEVI	"Surname missing", which tells nobody what to look for
ANJALIKUMARI joined as one word	Wrongly written as ANJALIKUMARI, correct name ANJALI KUMARI	ANJALI KUMARI in both columns, which shows no error at all
Father printed as RAM PRASAD, correct is RAM PRASHAD	Name of my father has been wrongly written as RAM PRASAD, correct name RAM PRASHAD	Your own name in the notice, when the error is in his
HEMBRAM on the marksheet, HEMBROM everywhere else	Wrongly written as HEMBRAM, correct name HEMBROM	Both spellings called correct, which is the alias route and a different form

Decide the final spelling before you type a single line. The notice fixes one version as correct for the rest of your life. If your Aadhaar, PAN, bank and caste certificate already agree on one spelling, that is almost always the one to declare correct, because then only the JAC papers have to move. Choosing the rarer version means changing everything else afterwards, at your own cost. The three-question router on the name spelling correction page walks through this.

The Newspaper Wording

The Department asks for the matter to be published in one of the daily local leading newspapers showing details of the case. So the newspaper text is not a one-line change of name announcement. It carries the same content as the proforma: your correct name, your father's name, your address, the wrong version exactly as printed, the correct version, and which certificate carries the error. Keep the newspaper wording and the proforma wording the same, word for word, because a counter that finds a difference between them sends the file back.

On two newspapers, the honest position. The guidelines ask for the original paper carrying the advertisement. Two papers, one Hindi and one English, is what many offices and employers in Jharkhand expect to see, not something the guidelines state. We publish in one paper as the guidelines require, and in a second only where the office that will receive your document asks for it. Editions and wording are on the newspaper advertisement page.

Cover everything once

Naming Each JAC Certificate in One Public Notice

A JAC student does not hold one document. He holds a Class 10 marksheet, a Class 10 certificate, possibly a Class 12 marksheet and certificate, a migration certificate and a registration card, and the same wrong spelling usually runs through all of them because they were all printed from the same register entry. The notice can cover all of them, but only if each one is named.

List the documents by name

Class 10 marksheet with its roll number and year, Class 10 certificate, Class 12 marksheet and certificate where they exist, migration certificate, registration card. An office reads its own document's name in your notice and stops arguing.

Give the roll number and year of passing

This is what ties the notice to you rather than to somebody with a similar name. Without it a verification panel has to take your word for the link.

Add the other records if they carry it too

If the caste certificate, the residence certificate or the birth entry carry the same wrong spelling, name them in the same notice. One fee, several records covered.

Several children, one notice. Where the same error runs through more than one child's papers, most often the father's name written the same wrong way on every certificate, the parent can publish once and name each child and each certificate. This is the cheapest fix available in the whole family of cases, and it is why we ask on the first call whether brothers and sisters are affected too. The father's name side of it is on the father's name page.

Do not write "all my documents". It reads as though you do not know which paper is wrong, and it gives an office nothing to match. Every document you expect the notice to help with has to be named in it. A document left out is a document you may have to publish again for, at the full fee.

In order

The Order to File a JAC Public Notice In

Get the register page in writing

Ask the school for a certified photocopy of the admission register page and the original admission form. If the school refuses, an RTI to the school's public information officer costs Rs 10 and has a thirty-day reply time, though it is weak against a private unaided school.

Decide the final spelling

Match the majority of your live documents unless you have a strong reason not to. Write it down and use exactly that version everywhere after this.

List every document to be covered

With roll numbers and years. This list becomes part of the notice text, so build it before you type the proforma.

Type the proforma in duplicate

Public notice category, the error quoted exactly, signed by you in your own correct name, with two witnesses giving their names, addresses and mobile numbers.

Swear the undertaking and publish the newspaper matter

The undertaking signed by you, and the newspaper matter carrying the details of the case. Keep the whole original paper, not a cutting.

Prepare the soft copy exactly as asked

MS Word, without the witness portion, with the name typed where the signature goes, plus the signed certificate saying the hard and soft copies are the same.

Attach the marksheet and pay on BharatKosh

An attested photocopy of the certificate carrying the error, two self-attested photographs, identity and address proof, and the e-receipt. Then post the whole set yourself.

Read the notice, then start the offices

Check every letter of both versions and the document names. Then take the gazette copy to the board through the school, and afterwards to the offices that were refusing you.

Do it before a verification, not during one. If a JSSC or JPSC verification, a police verification or a joining formality is coming up, start this the day you notice the error. Part IV publishes weekly and a file can go back and forth, so a three-week deadline is not enough room. What can and cannot be fixed in three weeks is on the verification deadline page.

The file

Documents Required for a JAC Certificate Public Notice

This is the Department's own list for the public notice category, with what it means for a JAC case written beside it.

Documents required for a public notice and what each means in a JAC certificate case
The paper	What it means for a JAC case
Prescribed proforma in duplicate	Typed, two original copies, signed by you in your own correct name and by two witnesses with their addresses and mobile numbers. The public notice proforma, not the change of name one
Undertaking signed by the applicant	Your signed statement that the contents are true and that you accept responsibility if a legal issue arises later
Original newspaper	The whole original paper, the matter published in one of the daily local leading newspapers showing the details of the case, with the paper's name and date visible
Attested photocopy of the connected legal document	The JAC marksheet or certificate that carries the wrong spelling. This is the paper that proves the error exists, and it is the one people leave out
CD with the print matter	MS Word, without the witness portion, with the name typed in place of the signature
Certificate about the soft copy	Signed by you, declaring that the hard copies and the soft copy carry the same matter
Two passport photographs	Recent, self-attested
Identity and address proof	Self-attested, with the address matching the proforma and the undertaking
Witness proofs	Self-attested identity and address proof for each of the two witnesses
Request letter with the fee	Addressed to the Controller of Publication, with a telephone number and an email address, and the BharatKosh e-receipt

Add the paper that carries the correct spelling too. The Department does not list it, but a file that shows the Class 10 certificate with the error alongside an Aadhaar or a birth certificate with the correct version explains itself in one glance. The Department itself names the tenth certificate and the birth certificate as proof of an old name, so those two carry real weight.

No paper in the file may be older than one year. The Department's guidelines state that the documents must not be older than one year. A newspaper page kept from an attempt you abandoned last year, or an identity copy you have not refreshed, is enough on its own to send the file back. Date every paper before you post it.

Nothing you send is returned. The Department states that documents once submitted are not returned in any circumstances, neither the original nor the photocopy. So the original newspaper and the attested marksheet copy are gone. Photocopy the entire file before it leaves Jharkhand, and never send an original certificate, only an attested photocopy.

The full process

Central Gazette Public Notice Process From Jharkhand, Step by Step, Before the JAC Papers Move

No district in Jharkhand has a gazette counter, so a student in Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Hazaribagh or any other district sends the file to the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054, and the notice publishes in Part IV of the Gazette of India. As reported in July 2025 the Finance Department stopped personal name change notifications from the Jharkhand Government Press with immediate effect, so there is no state alternative to consider. A widely copied listing prints a Jharkhand address with the Delhi pin code, and the gazette office page shows how to spot it.

The Eight Steps of a Central Gazette File Sent From Jharkhand

Settle the correct spelling first

Letter by letter, and then use that version in every paper in the file. The Gazette publishes what is written. One wrong letter means a corrigendum, a second fee and a second wait.

Use the public notice proforma

The Department runs twelve separate notice categories, each with its own proforma. Yours is notification of public notice. A JAC correction filed on the change of name proforma is returned, because that form swears a change you never made.

Quote the error and name the certificates

The wrong spelling exactly as printed, the correct spelling, and each document with its roll number and year. This is the content that does the work later.

Sign in your own name, with two witnesses

A public notice is signed in your correct name, because nothing of yours is changing. Two witnesses sign both original copies with their addresses and mobile numbers.

Publish and keep the original paper

One of the daily local leading newspapers, the matter showing the details of the case. The whole original paper goes in the file, not a cutting and not a website PDF.

Pay only through BharatKosh

The Government fee goes through BharatKosh, the Non Tax Receipt Portal, and nowhere else since October 2018. Print the e-receipt. No agent can pay it on another portal and nobody at the Department takes cash.

Post the complete set in your own name

Personally or by post or courier only. The Department rules out an agent, advocate, tout, friend or relative carrying an authority letter. Photocopy everything first, because nothing sent in comes back.

Read the notice, then download it

Check it the day it publishes and note the page and issue number. Download the e-Gazette copy of that Part IV issue and keep it permanently with your marksheet.

The Five Papers in the File, and What Is Checked in Each

The five papers of a Central Gazette public notice file and what the Department checks in each
The paper	What is checked in it, clause by clause
1. The proforma, in duplicate	That it is the public notice proforma; the wrong version quoted exactly as the certificate prints it; the correct version; the relationship line, where the error is in a parent's name; the father's name; the full address with pin code; your signature in your own name; two witnesses complete with mobile numbers
2. The undertaking	Signed by you; the same names and address as the proforma, word for word; the declaration that the statement is true and that you take responsibility if a legal issue arises later
3. The original newspaper	The original paper, not a cutting; the paper's name and date of publication visible; the details of the case shown; the same spelling as the proforma in every place
4. The attested marksheet, photographs and identity proof	The attested photocopy of the JAC document carrying the error, which is what proves the error exists; two self-attested photographs; identity and address proof matching the proforma address; both witnesses' proofs
5. The CD, its certificate and the BharatKosh receipt	MS Word, without the witness portion, name typed in place of the signature; the signed certificate that hard and soft copies are the same; the request letter with a telephone number and email; the e-receipt showing payment to the Department of Publication

The proforma is where files are lost, and there are twelve to choose from. A JAC correction on the change of name proforma, or a student's file on the minor's guardian proforma, comes back. The Government fee already paid is not refunded, because BharatKosh payments are non-refundable. You then have six months to make good a shortcoming the Department points out, after which a fresh application with all new documents is required.

What to select on BharatKosh, field by field. Pay to the Department of Publication, and pick the Ministry, the Pay and Accounts Office and the Drawing and Disbursing Officer by their names in the dropdown, never by a code copied off a website. The codes printed for this office on different websites do not agree with each other, and money paid into the wrong head cannot be traced to your file. The purpose is the publication of the notice in the Gazette of India. Read the amount on the portal on the day you pay, because it is revised each financial year.

How to read the published notice before you rely on it. Open the e-Gazette copy and check five things: that it says Part IV; the date of publication; the wrong version exactly as your certificate carries it; the correct version, letter by letter; and that every certificate you listed is actually named in the printed text. Then note the page number and the issue number, because that is what a board or a verification panel will quote back to you.

The posting detail from Jharkhand is on the sending the file to Delhi page, the payment walkthrough on the BharatKosh page, the wording line by line on the proforma format page, the download on the download page, and the fix for a published error on the corrigendum page.

Being honest

What a Published JAC Public Notice Gets You, and What It Does Not

This is the section most pages on this subject leave out, and it is the one that decides whether you feel cheated afterwards.

What it does

It ends the argument about which spelling is correct. A Government publication now says the certificate carries a wrong version and states the right one. A verification panel, an employer, a college, a bank or a passport office reads it and accepts the link between the two versions. That is genuinely valuable, because the usual problem is not that anyone doubts you, it is that no official paper connected the two names.

What it does not do

It does not by itself make the Jharkhand Academic Council print a fresh marksheet. The board works from its own register and its own rules. Where the register carries the error and cannot be corrected, the realistic outcome is that your gazette notice travels with the old certificate for the rest of your life, and where the board does act, it is usually a linking entry rather than a reprint.

What to do with the published notice, office by office
Where to take it	What to expect
The board, through the school	Submit the gazette copy with the correction application. Ask in writing what the board will do: a fresh certificate, an endorsement, or a refusal in writing. A refusal in writing is itself useful, because it explains the old certificate forever
The verification panel or employer	Carry the gazette copy, the newspaper, the certificate and your Aadhaar together. Panels test consistency, not correctness, and the notice is what supplies the consistency
A college or university	The realistic outcome on an old degree is a linking letter recording the correct name alongside the earlier one. The college refuses page covers what to do when it is resisted
Aadhaar	A spelling correction is treated as a minor edit and is limited to twice in a lifetime, so do not spend an update on a version you are not sure about. The rules are on the Aadhaar page
The caste or residence certificate	Issued afresh through JharSewa rather than amended, and the fresh one follows the corrected spelling. The caste certificate page has the route

Keep the file together for life. The gazette copy, the newspaper page, the attested marksheet and the affidavit belong in one folder, with a scan on your phone. Fifteen years from now a promotion, a passport renewal or a property paper will ask about this, and a family that can produce the set in a minute never has a problem.

Cost and time

JAC Public Notice Fee and Time in Jharkhand

Costs and timelines for a JAC certificate public notice from Jharkhand
Item	What to expect
What the guidelines print	The Department's public notice guidelines state printing charges of Rs 1,400 for the financial year 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017, and add that it varies each financial year and varies from case to case
What applicants commonly pay now	Commonly around Rs 1,350 for a public notice with the undertaking, against Rs 1,100 for a plain adult change of name and Rs 1,700 for a minor. These are revised each financial year, so read the amount on BharatKosh on the day you pay rather than trusting any website, this one included
Extra names or extra matter	The Department publishes a separate note on details where additional charges are applicable. Covering several certificates or several children can raise the amount, which is what varying from case to case means
How it is paid	BharatKosh only, since 1 October 2018. Non-refundable, whether the notice publishes or the file comes back
Newspaper cost	Paid to the paper, not the Department, and it varies with the size of the matter. A public notice showing the details of the case runs longer than a one-line change of name, so it costs more than people expect
Affidavit and notary	Rs 100 non-judicial stamp paper is the safe default in Jharkhand, plus the notary's charge
The board's own fee	The Jharkhand Academic Council charges for a correction or a duplicate, and the amount and the form differ by case. We do not print a JAC figure, because the amounts circulating online belong to other boards. We confirm it for your case before you pay
Time to publish	Part IV publishes weekly. Allow several weeks from posting, and more if the file travels back and forth. The six-month window to make good a shortcoming is the outer limit before a fresh application is needed
Our charge	Quoted on your papers before you pay anything, and confirmed in writing. We print no service price on any page of this site

The whole journey cost, including the document updates afterwards, is on the name change cost page, and the gazette stage on its own is on the time and fees page.

Setting the record straight

Myths About the JAC Certificate Public Notice

"A gazette gets me a fresh marksheet"

It does not, on its own. The board prints from its own register under its own rules. The notice settles which spelling is correct so no office can argue; a reprint is a separate decision by the board, and often the outcome is an endorsement instead.

"Every JAC spelling error needs a gazette"

Most do not. If the admission register carries the correct version, the board corrects the certificate through the school and no gazette is needed. Check the register before you spend anything.

"I can just write spelling mistake in my name"

The proforma asks you to state that the name has been wrongly written as something. The wrong version has to be reproduced exactly. A vague notice gives an office nothing to match against your certificate.

"One notice covers all my papers automatically"

Only the documents you actually name in it. A certificate left out of the text is a certificate the notice does not speak to, and covering it later means publishing again at the full fee.

"A change of name notice does the same job"

It does the opposite. It swears you used to be called something else, which is untrue here, and then an office asks why your other records were never in that earlier name. The two categories are compared on the correction against change page.

"An agent will submit it at the Delhi counter"

The Department states that only personal submission or post and courier are entertained and rules out agents and advocates by name. Anyone promising counter submission is promising something already ruled out.

"A photocopy of the newspaper is fine"

The original paper goes into the file, with its name and date visible. A cutting, a photocopy or a PDF downloaded from the paper's website is not accepted.

"There is a gazette office in Ranchi for this"

There is not. No district in Jharkhand has a counter for personal notices, and as reported the state press stopped these notifications in July 2025.

"My date of birth can be fixed in the same notice"

No. A date is settled by the registrar, the board against its register, or a court, never by a notice about a name. The date of birth page has the real routes.

Plain meanings

Key Terms in a JAC Public Notice File

Key terms used in a JAC certificate public notice file
Term	What it means in practice
Public notice	The Department of Publication's category for declaring that a name has been wrongly written. The right category for a JAC misprint
Admission register	The school's own record of what your name was when you joined. The board prints from it and corrects against it, so it decides your route
Connected legal document	In this file, the attested photocopy of the JAC marksheet or certificate carrying the error. The paper that proves the error exists
Proforma in duplicate	Two original typed copies, both signed by you and by two witnesses. Not one signed copy photocopied
Undertaking	Your signed statement that the contents are true and that you accept responsibility if a legal issue arises later
Part IV	The weekly Part of the Gazette of India that carries personal notices
Endorsement or linking entry	A note recording the correct name alongside the printed one, which is often what a board or university gives instead of a reprint
Corrigendum	A follow-up notice correcting a mistake in a notice already published
DEO and DSE	The District Education Officer handles secondary, so Class 10 and Class 12 matters go to him. The District Superintendent of Education handles primary
BharatKosh	The Non Tax Receipt Portal, the only channel for the Government fee since October 2018

Coverage

JAC Public Notice Help Across Jharkhand

The school and the board sit in your own district. Everything else, the wording, the file and the posting, is done on your scans over WhatsApp from our Ranchi desk, for every district in the state.

RanchiJamshedpurDhanbadBokaroHazaribaghDeogharGiridihDumkaRamgarhMedininagarChaibasaGumlaKhuntiSimdegaGarhwaSahibganj

District pages are linked from the services page.

Send the marksheet and your Aadhaar

Photograph the JAC marksheet or certificate carrying the wrong name, your Aadhaar, and the school admission register page if you already have it. The first reply tells you whether the board can correct it without any gazette at all, which is cheaper and what we hope to find, or whether a public notice is the route. If it is, we send you the exact wording with the error quoted and every certificate named, and the total cost before you pay anything. If brothers or sisters carry the same error, say so, because one notice can cover them all. Details on the contact page.

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FAQ

JAC Certificate Public Notice: Frequently Asked Questions

My JAC marksheet spells my name wrongly. Do I need a public notice?+

Only if the school admission register carries the same wrong spelling. Ask the school that question first. If the register is correct, the board can correct the certificate through the school and you need no gazette at all, which is cheaper and faster. The public notice route is for when the register itself is wrong, so the board has nothing correct to copy from. The decision is set out on the JAC register page.

Which gazette category is a JAC name error, correction or change of name?+

Public notice, which is the Department of Publication's category for a name that has been wrongly written. Not change of name, because nothing about your name changed. The change of name proforma has you swear that you shall henceforth be known as a new name, and using it for a misprint means an office later asks why your Aadhaar was never in that supposed earlier name. The two are compared in full on the correction against change page.

How exactly do I write the wrong spelling in the notice?+

Reproduce it, do not describe it. Copy it from the certificate letter for letter, including a missing letter, a doubled letter, a joined word or a dropped surname, and then give the correct version. "Wrongly written as RAJIB KUMAR MEHTA, correct name RAJIV KUMAR MAHATO" is a usable notice. "Spelling mistake in my name" is not, because an office has nothing to match against its own document.

Can one notice cover my Class 10 and Class 12 papers together?+

Yes, if each document is named in the text with its roll number and year. The Class 10 marksheet, the Class 10 certificate, the Class 12 marksheet and certificate, the migration certificate, and any other record carrying the same error can all be covered by one notice. What does not work is writing "all my documents", because that names nothing an office can match.

Will the board print a fresh marksheet once the notice publishes?+

Not automatically, and we will not promise it. The Jharkhand Academic Council works from its own register and its own rules. Submit the gazette copy with the correction application through the school and ask in writing what the board will do: a fresh certificate, an endorsement recording the correct name, or a refusal. Where the register carries the error and cannot be corrected, the realistic outcome is that the notice travels with the old certificate, and that is still enough for verification panels and employers.

What is the one paper people forget in this file?+

The attested photocopy of the certificate that carries the error. The Department's public notice list calls it the attested photocopy of the connected legal document, and it is the heart of the file, because a correction has to show that the error exists somewhere. A change of name file has nothing of the kind. Send an attested photocopy and never an original, because documents submitted are not returned in any circumstances.

Do I sign the proforma in my correct name or the wrong one?+

Your own correct name. In the public notice category nothing of yours is changing, you are declaring that a record carries a mistake, so you sign as yourself. This is the opposite of the change of name category, where the Department asks for the copies to be signed by the old name of the applicant. Agents who use one template for everything get this wrong, and the file comes back.

My father's name is wrong on my marksheet, not mine. Same notice?+

Yes, and the proforma allows for it. Its relationship line covers the name of your father, mother, wife, husband or minor child, so the notice can declare that your father's name has been wrongly written on your certificate. The Department's own scope note for this category also lists a change of name of children and of the father on re-marriage. The wider picture is on the father's name in a JAC marksheet page.

Several of us have the same error. Can my father publish once for all of us?+

Yes, where the same wrong version runs through more than one child's papers, most often the father's name written the same way on each certificate. The parent publishes one notice and names each child and each document in it. This is the cheapest fix in this whole family of cases, which is why we ask about brothers and sisters on the first call. Additional names can raise the fee, since the Department publishes a note on details where additional charges are applicable.

How much does a JAC public notice cost?+

The Department's own guidelines still print printing charges of Rs 1,400 for the financial year 2016 to 2017 and say the amount varies each financial year and from case to case. What applicants commonly pay now is around Rs 1,350 for a public notice with the undertaking, against Rs 1,100 for a plain adult change of name, and these figures are revised each financial year, so read the amount on BharatKosh on the day you pay. The newspaper and the notary are separate, and the board's own correction fee differs by case, which is why we never print a JAC figure.

Can an agent file it for me at the Department in Delhi?+

No. The Department states that an application is entertained only if submitted personally or sent by post or courier, and that no other channel is permissible, naming agents and advocates. The change of name guidelines add a lawyer, tout, friend or relative carrying an authority letter. What a documentation desk properly does is prepare and check the file; you post it in your own name from Ranchi, Dhanbad or wherever you are.

Is there a gazette office in Jharkhand where I can hand this in?+

No. No district in Jharkhand has a counter for personal notices, and as reported the Finance Department stopped personal name change notifications from the Jharkhand Government Press in July 2025 with a high level inquiry ordered. Both routes go to the Department of Publication at Civil Lines, Delhi 110054, and publish in Part IV of the Gazette of India. A widely copied listing prints a Jharkhand address with the Delhi pin code, and the gazette office page shows how to spot it.

Who wrote and checked this page

Written and maintained by the Jharkhandnamechange.com documentation desk, led by founder Vipin Chauhan, B.Tech LL.B, with 5+ years filing with the Department of Publication. The proforma opening quoted here, the document list including the attested photocopy of the connected legal document, the requirement that the matter be published in one of the daily local leading newspapers showing the details of the case, the rule that the soft copy leaves out the witness portion with the name typed in place of the signature, the submission channel restriction, the non-return of documents and the printing charge figure for 2016 to 2017 all come from the Department's own published guidelines for notification of public notice, linked below. The school and board side follows the Council's practice of correcting against the school admission register through the head of institution. We publish no Jharkhand Academic Council fee figure, because the amounts circulating online belong to other boards, and we confirm the current one for your case instead. We are a documentation consultancy and not advocates, and where the register is correct we will tell you to push the school rather than sell you a gazette. Who we are is on the about page.

Last reviewed 18 September 2026 • 9540005002 • info@jharkhandnamechange.com • Jharkhandnamechange.com is a private documentation consultancy and is not the Jharkhand Academic Council, the Department of Publication, a school, a law firm or any Government office. This page is general information, not legal advice.

Verify it yourself

Official Sources on the Public Notice and JAC Corrections

Department of Publication, guidelines for change of nameWhere the guidelines for notification of public notice sit, alongside the other categories, each with its own proforma.
Department of Publication, Government of IndiaThe office at Civil Lines, Delhi 110054 that publishes personal notices in Part IV.
e-GazetteWhere a published Part IV notice is searched for and downloaded free.
BharatKosh, Non Tax Receipt PortalThe only channel for the Government fee, and where to read the current amount.
Jharkhand Academic CouncilThe board itself, for the correction application, the forms and the current fee.
School Education and Literacy Department, JharkhandThe District Education Officer and District Superintendent of Education directories, for escalation where a school will not forward the correction.

Quick Summary

The JAC Public Notice in Eight Lines

The short version

Ask what the school admission register carries, before spending anything.
If the register is right, the board corrects it and no gazette is needed.
If the register carries the same error, this is the public notice route.
The category is public notice, never change of name.
Quote the wrong spelling exactly as the certificate prints it.
Name every certificate, with its roll number and year.
The attested marksheet copy goes into the file as proof of the error.
The notice ends the argument; it does not itself reprint a marksheet.

Check the register first. It decides whether you need this at all.

Send the marksheet and your Aadhaar and we will tell you whether the board can fix it free, or whether a public notice is the route, with the exact wording.

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